Twenty categories, waiting
The league's host offers to sort the whole league by at bats, runs, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, RBI, batting average, walks, stolen bases and on-base percentage, and on the other side by wins, saves, innings pitched, hits allowed, runs allowed, earned runs, walks allowed, strikeouts and ERA. Twenty categories, across seventeen seasons of archives.
Whether any of them are populated is not visible from the outside, and the appearance counts on the rosters suggest the answer is mostly not.
Leaderboards that build themselves out of scored games are standard on a High Cheese league page, with a page for each player underneath -- which is the difference between twenty empty categories and a record of who actually had the season.
Pennsylvania Mid-State MSBL in detail
- Five clubs around Harrisburg playing Sunday doubleheaders, with seventeen years of seasons on the record.
- Doubleheaders every Sunday at one and half past three.
- Two teams tied at 14-4 and a hundred-run gap to the bottom of the table.
- Results feed the standings; the league keeps a scoreboard page for them.
- Full rosters published by name, with jersey numbers where the league has them.
- Each club lists its manager and his phone number; the league lists nobody.
- There is no registration page; a player rings a manager.
- East Hanover Township and the Robert E. Yetter Memorial Field in Lower Allen.
- No rulebook is published; the doubleheader format is the one structural fact.
- A news page, and an alert list players sign up to by text and email.
- A team photograph captioned with every man in it, front row and back.
- A sponsors page exists in the menu and names nobody publicly.
- Playoff brackets are archived for six seasons and no champion is named.
- Seventeen seasons of archives showing a league that has been three shapes.
- Nobody is named above club level.
- Where and when are answered by the fixtures; everything else is not.
- A forms page sits in the menu.
- An eighteen-game season of Sundays, running into August.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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